Peter Blanchette: Renaissance of the Arch Guitar

Posted by Rachel Goodman | May 23, 2024 | All Music, All Talk, Arts & Culture, Classical, Live Performance, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

KSQD Talks Music

Peter Blanchette: Renaissance of the Arch Guitar

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Rachel Anne Goodman interviews classical musician and composer, Peter Blanchette. Peter plays one of only four arch guitars in the world, an instrument he invented, which is a combination of classical guitar and lute. Blanchette is one of the world’s experts on the instrument, having played his brand of Renaissance and Baroque music in concert halls and street corners throughout Europe and the United States. Peter shares his music, perspective on what it takes to survive as a musician, and his transition from factory worker to street musician, to film scorer and winning Prairie Home Companion’s Towns under 2000 competition.

For more on Peter Blanchette: https://www.archguitar.com/

About The Author

Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.